Kudos

The Landmark Student-Athlete Advisory Committee has recognized the Goucher College men’s and women’s swimming teams as leaders in sportsmanship in the conference. For more information, check it out here.

Kelly Brown Douglas, Goucher College professor of philosophy and religion, is a keynote speaker at Morgan State University’s symposium “Intersections: Sexuality, Gender, Race and Ethnicity” on March 9.

The New York Times recently published the article “Kleybanova Plots Return After Two-Year Cancer Fight” by Ben Snyder ’13.

USA Field  Hockey selected the Goucher Women’s Field Hockey team as one of 14 groups that will run the You Go Girl program. The initiative exposes the sport of field hockey to girls in urban or non-traditional areas. There will be basic field hockey coaching, along with highlighting additional topics, such as healthy lifestyles, nutrition, and the value of

The Global History of Sport in the Cold War initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. has awarded funding to Erica Fraser, assistant professor in the department of history at Goucher.  Fraser will bring parts of her upcoming book project, Real Men Play Hockey: The Invention of Nordic Masculinity in Soviet Sports Culture,

The Bringing Theory to Practice Project awarded Goucher College a grant that was used to support a Civic Engagement Retreat held on campus January 22. Thirty members of the Goucher community participated in the retreat, where they discussed Goucher’s strategic emphasis on enhancing civic engagement programs. Associate Dean of Students Emily Perl and Director of Community-Based

Kendall Kennison, associate professor of music and chair of the music department, is the keynote speaker at Wright State University’s American Innovators Series event on the music of Stuart Saunders Smith. Kennison will discuss the influence of Quakerism on Smith’s music.

Queen Nur will perform a collection of biographical vignettes highlighting outspoken African American women of the 19th-century at Hampton National Historic Site’s Annual African American History Symposium. Nur is a graduate of Goucher’s cultural sustainability M.A. program and is currently pursuing the second part of her dual master’s degree in digital arts at Goucher.

Congratulations to Laura Amy Schlitz ’77, who has just been named the recipient of a 2013 Newbery Honor for her latest masterpiece, “Splendors and Glooms.” This is the second time she has been honored by the Newbery Committee.

Goucher Provost Marc Roy has been elected to a two-year term as the chair of the board of directors for the American Conference of Academic Deans. For more information on ACAD, visit www.acad-edu.org.